different between sediment vs foreset

English

Etymology

From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sede?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?d.?.m?nt/
• Rhymes: -?d?m?nt

Noun

sediment (countable and uncountable, plural sediments)

1. A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.

   The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.

Hyponyms

• dregs
• grounds
• grout
• settlings

Related terms

• sedimentary
• sedimentation
• sedimentaceous
• sedimentitious
• sedimentoclastic

Translations

Verb

sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)

1. (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
2. (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.

Translations

Anagrams

• Edmisten, end items, end times, endtimes, enmisted, midteens, set mined, setmined, tidesmen

Czech

Noun

sediment m

1. sediment

Synonyms

• usazenina

Related terms

• See sese

Further reading

• sediment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sediment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?.di?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: se?di?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimenten)

1. sediment

Derived terms

• sedimentaanvoer
• sedimentafzetting
• sedimentgesteente

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment or sedimenter, definite plural sedimenta or sedimentene)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment, definite plural sedimenta)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French sediment, from Latin sedimentum.

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimente)

1. sediment

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sed?ment/
• Hyphenation: se?di?ment

Noun

sedìment m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. sediment

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• fore-set

Etymology

From Middle English foresetten, from Old English f?resettan (“to place before, shut in, propose, prefer, precede”), equivalent to fore- +? set. Cognate with Dutch voorzetten (“to put in front”), German vorsetzen (“to put in front, offer, serve up”), Swedish föresätta (“to put before”).

Verb

foreset (third-person singular simple present foresets, present participle foresetting, simple past and past participle foreset)

1. (transitive) To set before or in front of; bar; block; impede.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
3. To propose, suggest.

Derived terms

• foresetting

Noun

foreset (plural foresets)

1. An obstacle; hindrance.
2. That which is set ahead or before; proposal, suggestion.
3. (geology) The deposition of sediment by the turbidity currents above the reservoir water level.

   Most deltas contain three different types of deposits: foreset, topset and bottomset beds. — Fluvial Landforms

Derived terms

• (geology): foreset bed

Adjective

foreset (comparative more foreset, superlative most foreset)

1. Set in fore or front part; placed ahead.

Anagrams

• foreste